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captioning sponsored by cbs >> o'donnell: tonight, president biden and the first lady traveled to flood-ravaged kentucky to get a firsthand look at the devastation. meeting residents and the first responders, the president makes a promise. >> we're staying until everybody is back to where they were. >> with the threat of more rain on the way, cbs's nancy cordes speaks with families digging out from the mud left behind. >> people herar resilient and strong and smart and courageous. they'll rebuild, they'll need help a. >> four muslim men gunned down in albuquerque. investigators looking into a possible link. omar villafranca talks with one victim's grieving brother. >> right now, everybody is scared. >> used car prices are
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skyrocketing. >> how much did you pay for that out the door with taxes. >> 87- and change. the inflation filled world of car flipping. >> they gave you how much? $101,000. and remembering olivia newton-john. ( singing ) she captured hearts as the girl next door and became an inspiration to many through her battle with cancer. ♪ ♪ ♪ this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell, reporting from the nation's capital. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good evening and thank you for joining us. i'm jericka duncan in for norah. tonight, president biden and the first lady are in kentucky to get an upclose look at the catastrophic flohaside wasoineda communitanme witvicms and first responders in one of the worst flooding dicationers in state history -- disasters n
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state history. tonight the threat of even more flooding is in the forecast with rains expected this week. experts say it could take years to rebuild this region that one witness described as looking like a war zone after the flood waters began to recede. we have a lot of news to get to. cbs's nancy cordes starts us off from whitesburg, kentucky. it's been a tough go for that state. >> reporter: it really has, jericka. information, this is the second time in a year that president biden has come to kentucky to tour devastation, first from tornadoes, and now from floods, that in neighborhood after neighborhood destroyed homes like these from the inside out. >> this is what's left of downtown whitesburg now hat the north fork kentucky river has receded. crews carted off mountains of debris today after pour feet of water rushed into these homes in the middle of the night two weeks ago. >> they got out with the clothes
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on their back. >> reporter: beverly johnson's father escaped by boat and is how living in a camper. >> this house has to be demolished. we thought we could save it but the floors are buckled and there's already model. it's not going to be safe to something back. >> reporter: but your father wants to stay here. >> he wants to stay. >> reporter: president biden toured a nearby lost creek where school buses were washed away and mobile homes upend ended. >> you're an american citizen. we go forward. >> reporter: the disaster, sr. zone stretches across twelve eastern kentucky counties. as much as ten and a half inches of rain came down in just 48 hours, turning creeks into rivers inen a area made more vulnerable by strip mining. hundreds are housed in kentucky state parks.
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37 confirmed dead including two in whitesburg bhorp driving the work when their car was washed off the road. how many of these houses will have to be torn down? >> we haven't done that assessment, yet, but i'm assuming it will be close to half. >> reporter: tiffany craft was just elected mayor last year. >> you go through that initial shock, and everyone came to acceptance and starred rebuilding. >> kentucky's governor told president biden today that h region now has enough bottled whatever and inet re cash donations because despite all the help that is coming this way from fema, clearly, jericka, the people here are going to need to replace everything. >> definitely looks that way, nancy cordes, thank you. parts of the mile high city looked more like the sunken city of atlantis sunday. denver residents were stranded and some had to be rescued after flood waters turned streets into
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rivers. elsewhere, difference heat remains in the forecast for much of the country. let's bring in meteorologist mike bettes from our partners at the weather channel. good evening to you. >> reporter: jericka, good evening. the heat has been punishing across the northeast and f nothg changes tuesday with temperatures in the 90s. 97, boston. 27 straight days with the temperature above 80, an all-time record for the city. the next cold front promises to cool things off but brings storms, flooding rein asthoses the northwest. rains could lead to travel problems on the roadways and airports have moderate tie thenlready the tropics. after a quiet period, finally coming alive again. the national hurricane center designating this cluster of thunderstorms off the cost of africa an area to watch, 43%, becoming potentially our next named storm. >> tonight in ab albuquerque,
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new mexico, the murders of four muslim men. authorities believe theres may be connected and are asking bore the public's help: >> the fourth muslim shooting was killed in what investigators believe to be a targeted attack. >> we know this is not our city. we don't know the background of the perpetrator who's doing this, we don't mow how long they have been here or not. >> reporter: 25-year-old naeem hussain was shot just hours after attending funeral services for muhammad afzaal hussain and aftab hussein, who were both also ambushed and killed in the last two weeks. in november, 62-year-old mohammad zaher ahmedy was also killed. authieshngmo ministould b concted >> eboscared. r gri sarid afterther waskimill
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market. they fled afghanistan in the 1980s. like others in the small community, he's frightened and frustrated. >> to be honest with you, i don't care about my life anymore, when i lost my brother. >> reporter: local police are working with the f.b.i. and over the weekend released a photo of this car which they say is wanted in connection to the shootings. sources cbs news the f.b.i. is helping to determine whether the killings are a hate crime, a serial killer or both. across the country, a sample from a dozen cities shows a 45% increase in anti-muslim hate crimes many 2021. in response to the killings, police have increased promise around islamic centers and mosques like this one blind me. they've set up anonymous tip line and the reward is up to $20,000. jericka. >> omar villafranca in albuquerque, thank you. to georgia where a judge sentenced a white father and son
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to life in prison and their neighbor to 35 years for federal hate crime in theurder of manager the courtroom. >> it was hard to look at them every day as a father, and they show no remorse for how they took his life. that's the thing that really bothered me real bad. and then they asked for mercy. they didn't give him no mercy that day. >> all three men are already serving life sentences after being convicted in murder in a state trial last year. back here in washington, senate democrats are celebrating the weekend passage of a multi-billion-dollar spending bill focused on healthcare, climate change and taxes. scott macfarlane takes a closer look at how and when you might actually feel the impact. >> ms. klobuchar, aye. >> reporter: after a weekend marathon of voting in the u.s.
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senate. >> and the bill as amended is passed. >> reporter: approving a nearly three quarters trillion plan called the inflation reduction act the work we iman in small businesses like kyle burk's book stores today. with skepticism anything will change immediately. >> i think it will be foolish to expect short-term fixes from congress. >> good costs and outedsh costs are squeezing employees meaning burk will have to pay them more p. making it more challenging for you. >> absolutely will. voting down party lines with the republicans blasting plans saying it might raise taxes. >> this gives tony and cynical a bad name. >> $3,669 billion for clean energy programs, it's thest climate change in u.s. histories including tax credits for those who buy electric cars and home efficient upgrades. it expands the affordable care act and a new 15% tax rate on
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corporations to help pay for it. left out of the bill a plan to cap the price on insulin for millions on private insurance, as insulin prices soared from $20 to $250 a vial over the past 20 years. have you noticed the price increasing. >> significantly. michelle williams knows how the cost of insulin can slam families. her daughter suffered from diabetes before she died. >> you can't afford the particular insulin that you need. >> the u.s. house is expected to pass this legislation friday after which it goes to idden'desk. atarinth a political victory ahead of the midterm elections bus isn't clear if this will make a dent in inflation by then. jericka. >> we'll see what happens. tonight a fragile kaisers appears to be holding between israel and palestinian militants after a weekend of heavy fighting. it started friday with israeli targeting ironnian backed
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militants in gaza. the militants responded by firing more than 1100 rockets and shells at ireland. officials claim 200 rockets landed inside gaza killing innocent palestinians including children. president biden called for an investigation. today the pentagon announced the largest single military package yet for ukraine. the u.s. is pledging another billion dollars in rockets, ammunition and other equipment, as increased shelling around europe's largest nuclear plant is raising safety concerns. here's cbs's charlie d'agata from ukraine. >> reporter: the lethal back and forth over this power plant took a menacing new turn, renewed shelling increasinged fears of a catastrophic incident, something president zelenskyy condemned as russian nuclear terror. the plant lies on the front line of an intensifying russian offensive across southern ukraine, here in this coastal city has become the focus of
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russian fire power. ukrainian emergency service res leased drone footage this weekend said to show the aftermath of the latest artillery barrage. is it your sense that there will be a showdown in mykolaiv? yes, we're preparing for the offensive, he said. our soldiers will stand to the end. no one is planning to give up mykolaiv. he said the russians are returning out of precision missiles turning to older missiles in their arsenal. we found debris with combones and transistors, technology from the 1960s. we spoke in the rubble of the regional government headquarters destroyed many a precision missile strike in march. by luck alone, mykolaiv governor was not in his office that morning. why do you think the russians are so intent on attacking
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mykolaiv? >> they want to scare the civil population. >>eporter: under stricterrists. blackout conditions here, when the nightly bombardment begins. but the russians have vastly more fire power. the general told us for every shell, ukrainian forces fire, the russians respond with ten. jricka. >> charlie d'agata, thank you. if you were at the airport this weekend, there's a good chance your flights were delayed or canceled we'll tell you about proposed new rules that may have arlines paying up when we come back in 60 seconds. jmpleghts businesses "open". fields "open". who doesn't love "open"? offices. homes. stages. possibilities. your world. open. and you can help keep it that way.
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and they gave you how much? >> duncan: $101,000. it's absolutely insane, mind blowing. >> reporter: the dealer paid off the rest of his loan and wang walked away with a check for almost $17,000. >> in the last two years i have been driving brand-new cars and have not lost a cent. >> reporter: eddie gribust flipped his car for $5,000 more than he paid for it. >> nine months, and this is how much it appreciated. >> i have been basic vehicles like a honda civic and toyota camry, these vehicles are worth more in the used than the new market. >> reporter: typically cars lose more than 20% of their value the first year on the road. since the pandemic began, used car prices are actually up 53%, and that has some car owners seeing green. >> we continue have enough new cars. guess what? consumers resort to used cars, essentially raising the ceiling of what used cars cost. >> what does this do r a who's going to try to buy a used
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now and lived in the moment. that's tonight's "cbs evening news" r norah o'don >> judge judy: there's a story here, and i would li to kn what it is. >> announcer: funny business with a worker's pay? >> i also have copies of the checks with him fraudulently signing my signature. >> judge judy: these are all different signatures on the back. >> some of them, my name isn't even spelled correct. >> announcer: but will the joke be on his boss? >> judge judy: give me the dates of the two paychecks you deposited. >> i can't do that, ma'am. >> judge judy: mr. dougherty, there's something going on here that is not smelling right to me. >> announcer: "judge judy." you are about to enter the courtroom you are about to enter the courtroom of judge judith sheindlin. captions paid for by cbs television distribution brenda gailliard and her grandson, 18-year-old jermari martin, are suing their neighbor and jermari's former employer, brian dougherty, for fraud and unpaid wages. >> byrd: order! all rise!
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this is case number 479 on the calendar in the matter of gailliard-martin vs. dougherty. >> judge judy: thank you. >> byrd: you're welcome, judge. parties have been sworn in. you may be seated. ma'am, have a seat, please. >> judge judy: it's an interesting case. each one of you claim that the other committed a theft and bank fraud. your last name is? >> martin. >> judge judy: you're 17, mr. martin? >> i just turned 18 last wednesday. >> judge judy: so you're no longer a minor? >> no. >> judge judy: and you're his? >> his grandmother. >> judge judy: you don't have to stand up there. you can sit down. you're a witness. he's 18. now, you worked for mr. dougherty last summer. >> correct. >> judge judy: for how long? >> approximately about the whole summer. >> judge judy: is this the first time you worked for him? >> yes. >> judge judy: how did you get the job? >> at the time, i was just moving with my grandmother. i had a previous couple of jobs during the summer. i was outside washing cars, and i met -- >> judge judy: why did you move in with your grandmother? >> me and my mom had moved to virginia because it was cheaper to live at the time. so i moved down to my grandmother before my mom had moved
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